Re: [Astlinux-users] 0.4.2 Issues

Fri, 04 Aug 2006 06:32:13 -0700

Lonnie,
I had to leave my system at UTC time, and then use tz=pacific for my users to get voicemail headers to read the proper time.  However, CDR records still show UTC, which is unacceptable for a single time-zone implementation.

On 8/4/06, Lonnie Abelbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Aug 3, 2006, at 11:31 PM, Darrick Hartman wrote:

Lonnie Abelbeck wrote:
I have had a chance to play around with 0.4.2 on my test Soekris.
Lonnie,

Thanks.  The 0.4.x series of Astlinux should be considered beta at this 
point.  There are a bunch of things that need to be cleaned up and or 
fixed.  Since Astlinux is now registered as a sourceforge project, it 
would be helpful to have bugs tracked there.  If you wouldn't mind,  
could you put these items in the bug tracker?  I have a branch that I've 
built off the 191 rev from the trunk in svn.   I'm making some changes in 
that branch, then porting them back to the trunk when things are worked out.

Darrick,

Thanks much for your comments, and help with AstLinux.

I will try the bug tracker.

1)  Voicemail playback is always in GMT time.  "date" from the shell 
is correct for my timezone, but it appears that without zoneinfo  
support asterisk fails to find the files it expects and defaults to 
GMT time.  No matter what your voicemail.conf.   (same as Sarvesh 
stated earlier)
Since uclibc does not work with zoneinfo, we need to find out how 
Asterisk is getting the zone information.  Long term, it may be better 
to fix/patch that rather than hacking in support for zoneinfo.  Short of 
that, it should be possible to build the zoneinfo stuff linked to uclibc. 
This does not appear easy to fix to me...   or can foreign 
linux binaries for zoneinfo make asterisk happy?
Since these are binaries and build on glibc, probably not.

I looked at the app_voicemail.c, the timezone stuff is all over the place.  I was hoping that if no "tz=" options were used and no defined " [zonemessages]" entries voicemail would just use the UNIX system local time... but it doesn't.

Only using the UNIX local time would be good enough for me, but I suspect others want the [zonemessages] feature of voicemail.conf.


2) If my firewall blocks traffic to the 0.4.2 Soekris, asterisk hangs 
when it loads SIP.  This did not happen with 0.3.0 as I recall.
This is possibly due to another network service (such as ntp) hanging.  
I believe Kris switched to openntp from ntp.  I've been having some 
issues with openntp so I am in the process of building an image with ntp  
instead.

In my case, it is not ntp... my dns and ntp are local and weren't blocked by the firewall.  I then commented out the register lines in sip.conf, same problem, asterisk hangs when loading SIP.  I did have some qualify=yes in my peers, it could be related to that.  I need to do a little more work.

I really like the "freshness" of 0.4.2, new BusyBox, bash, asterisk, 
etc, but 0.3.0 runs so very well without problems.
I agree that 0.3.0 just plain works.  With only Kris doing development 
work in the past, it was a HUGE undertaking to migrate to the new build  
environment.  The runnix idea, while great in theory, should probably be 
held up until we have a 0.4x version that is as rock solid as versions  
built on the old build environment were. 

In anycase, please continue to test and report back to the list.   I'll 
see what I can do about looking at the timezone issues, because that is 
something that could be a problem.   For the time being, you could set 
the machine where localtime==UTC.

I use 0.3.0 for now. If I had a vote, I would make the time zone issues with voicemail a priority item.

Again, Darrick, I greatly appreciate your efforts with this project.

Lonnie


Darrick

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DJH Solutions, LLC
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